A site currently promoting awareness and debate of how the poorest students in Scotland face the highest government debts: "seems to return to this issue again and again…. " Michael Russell, former Cabinet Secretary for Education, April 2014

support for the principle of free tuition … according to the most recent reading, taken in 2013, stands at little more than a quarter (26 per cent) – though this represents something of a turnaround after dropping to just 20 per cent in 2010.

The most popular option over various surveys is mean-testing for fees.

It really ought not to be so hard to have a decent debate about all aspects of student funding, not least the disproportionate debt burden on the poor, in Scotland.